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June 6, 2019
The IRS will not be accepting any type of 2017 tax return until January 29, 2018
The IRS will hold all 2017 tax returns that have a tax refund which includes EIC and/or the Additional Child Tax Credit until mid-February. They will release the tax refunds in late February if there are no errors on the tax return.
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